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altarflameWe're home! We got in at about 11 last night, after stopping at a Whole Foods in Boca Raton for dinner (thanks GPS!).
So far for today I've fed everyone half an Odwalla bar and a square of chocolate each for breakfast, because there is NO food here, and then we went and picked up our produce share (a day late), got our house key from my sister, and deposited a check that had come in the mail, at the bank. Ever since then I've been trying to reply to emails and read my friends' page and go back through facebook and so on while the kids run around and reacquaint themselves with all our "stuff". I think Aaron has played guitar or piano for the last two hours solid and Isaac has been locked in his bedroom with the legos that whole time. EVERYONE ONLINE HAD BABIES WHILE I WAS AWAY.
ARIELLE I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS!! I wish you would update 5 times a day, but of course you have that whole "newborn baby" thing taking up all your time and attention.
So my sister in on the way over here with a big pot of soup for lunch and cookies she baked us for tea, how awesome is that? And my email group is having meetups both tomorrow (at the zoo) and Saturday (at a museum). There's a BirthGirlz soap box derby Saturday night, at the bookstore, too. I love it.
Right around West Palm Beach, heading home from being away, I always get this niggling nervousness like, uh, we've been away for a week. In this case with my sister caring for our pets and bringing in our mail and things, and we have an alarm, but still. I start to think. What will we find when we get there, late in the night, kids sleeping in the back, assuming all is well? What if there was a fire/theft/animal death/massive bug infestation/etc? So it's a relief to come in and find it all just waiting for us as we left it. The chicks are bigger. And our house feels ENORMOUS after being in either a tiny cabin or our minivan the whole trip.
I have a million pictures and stories but that will probably have to wait until late tonight at the earliest. We shall see. Because I ALSO have a veritable mountain of laundry, a van to clean out, three boxes of produce to put away, a HOUSE TO CLEAN, and mostly I've got to go outside and sit in the grass with a bunch of small children and chickens and talk with Laura while we eat something yummy.
So far for today I've fed everyone half an Odwalla bar and a square of chocolate each for breakfast, because there is NO food here, and then we went and picked up our produce share (a day late), got our house key from my sister, and deposited a check that had come in the mail, at the bank. Ever since then I've been trying to reply to emails and read my friends' page and go back through facebook and so on while the kids run around and reacquaint themselves with all our "stuff". I think Aaron has played guitar or piano for the last two hours solid and Isaac has been locked in his bedroom with the legos that whole time. EVERYONE ONLINE HAD BABIES WHILE I WAS AWAY.
ARIELLE I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS!! I wish you would update 5 times a day, but of course you have that whole "newborn baby" thing taking up all your time and attention.
So my sister in on the way over here with a big pot of soup for lunch and cookies she baked us for tea, how awesome is that? And my email group is having meetups both tomorrow (at the zoo) and Saturday (at a museum). There's a BirthGirlz soap box derby Saturday night, at the bookstore, too. I love it.
Right around West Palm Beach, heading home from being away, I always get this niggling nervousness like, uh, we've been away for a week. In this case with my sister caring for our pets and bringing in our mail and things, and we have an alarm, but still. I start to think. What will we find when we get there, late in the night, kids sleeping in the back, assuming all is well? What if there was a fire/theft/animal death/massive bug infestation/etc? So it's a relief to come in and find it all just waiting for us as we left it. The chicks are bigger. And our house feels ENORMOUS after being in either a tiny cabin or our minivan the whole trip.
I have a million pictures and stories but that will probably have to wait until late tonight at the earliest. We shall see. Because I ALSO have a veritable mountain of laundry, a van to clean out, three boxes of produce to put away, a HOUSE TO CLEAN, and mostly I've got to go outside and sit in the grass with a bunch of small children and chickens and talk with Laura while we eat something yummy.
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Date: 2009-08-19 08:36 pm (UTC)In our case, our cats were alive and well-fed, but our books had been borrowed by our housesitters' friends, our email programs had been opened and tampered with and the blankets in all the bedrooms had been moved around the house. Glad to know it all looked the same when you got home. And welcome back - I've been reading you for a couple of years now and missed you while you were gone.
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Date: 2009-08-19 08:37 pm (UTC)Don't forget I posted pics from my camera at http://www.flickr.com/itswalkertime, including this one:
I really want the ones from the littler camera to put there, too.
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Date: 2009-08-20 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-20 10:46 am (UTC)My LJ friends are all still pregnant. I check in every day even if I have NO TIME to see if they've had their babies yet. None so far! I think today looks promising :)